I am encoding a TV captured AVI file to MPEG2 with CCE SP, doing a 1+3 pass VBR encoding.

At a specific frame in the avi file I get the following CCE error message:

"cce encoding failed.
VBR VBV ovf frame # 38848 (99:25:53:22) B 41652 max 40547,00 pln 29887,76 rel 1105,00 103 qsv 96,00->95,99"

This message did not appear in the first pass but only on the second and third (now) pass.

At the moment the message appears, the Quantizer scale indicators show 96,00 for I, 96,00 for P and 95,97 for B. I must point out that I have never before seen quantizer scale values higher than 15~20 while the average values range between 5~12. So all quantizers at 96 look strange.

Pressing OK to the error dialog box allows the encoder to continue encoding, however I have no idea - yet - what the final result will be.

I have done the obvious - check the source avi at the suggested frame. What I found is the reason for this post.

The TV show has a nice effect at the area of the offending frame. A simulated TV video static like when the TV is tuned where no channel exists. This effect starts about 100 frames before the error message appears.

Looks to me that this sequence of random noise pushes CCE over the edge and it fails to encode after a several frames of static.

What do you think?